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Other Stuff => Solid State => Topic started by: el_stu on March 23, 2010, 03:26:59 pm

Title: Multiple Inputs
Post by: el_stu on March 23, 2010, 03:26:59 pm

I'm not sure if this is the place to post this question, but I'm going for it!

I've got a buddy with an M80 and a Frontmant 212R (I know, the answer to my question should be "sell'em for somehting with tubes", but they aren't mine).  Each has 2 (or more) channels, and 2 inputs.  He says one input is for active and one for passive pickups, which make sense, one with less gain than the other.  The question is can you plug two instruments into an amp with two inputs?  what about two mics? A guitar and a mic?  Will it damage anything? Or just give sonically dissappointing results?

What about vintage amps?

Anybody have a summary on inputs/channels and what you can and cannot plug into them?

Title: Re: Multiple Inputs
Post by: PRR on March 23, 2010, 06:04:43 pm

> what you can and cannot plug into them?

Think less, drink more.

These things were made to be used by electronic idiots. Inputs are mostly blowup-proof.

Title: Re: Multiple Inputs
Post by: el_stu on March 24, 2010, 03:04:36 pm

10-4, though I think "drinking more" may have been the origin of our can/can not debate.  Just for the record, I used the very same "these are made for idiots" argument.

Title: Re: Multiple Inputs
Post by: Tiny_Daddy on April 11, 2010, 05:07:20 pm

I fix blown SS amp inputs all the time but from the extent of the damage it appears to be the result of plugging another amp's output into an input. Or maybe they plugged the same amp into it's own input?